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David McCandless: The beauty of data visualization

David McCandless turns complex data sets (like worldwide military spending, media buzz, Facebook status updates) into beautiful, simple diagrams that tease out unseen patterns and connections. Good design, he suggests, is the best way to navigate information glut -- and it may just change the way we see the world.
https://www.ted.com/talks/david_mccandless_the_beauty_of_data_visualization

JoAnn Kuchera-Morin: Stunning data visualization in the AlloSphere

JoAnn Kuchera-Morin demos the AlloSphere, a new way to see, hear and interpret scientific data. Dive into the brain, feel electron spin, hear the music of the elements ... and detect previously unseen patterns that could lead to new discoveries.
https://www.ted.com/talks/joann_kuchera_morin_stunning_data_visualization_in_the_allosphere

Playlist: Art made of data (5 talks)

Seeing patterns and creating beauty -- data visualization has become an art form. Meet pioneering artists who use spreadsheets, archives and digital data as their paints and canvas.
Curated by TED · 5 talks
https://www.ted.com/playlists/art_from_data

Playlist: Making sense of too much data (17 talks)

It's the age of Big Data. But what, exactly, do we do with all this information? These talks explore practical, ethical -- and spectacularly visual -- ways to understand near-infinite data.
Curated by TED · 17 talks
https://www.ted.com/playlists/making_sense_of_too_much_data

Playlist: How to make a great presentation (5 talks)

Stressed about an upcoming presentation? These talks are full of helpful tips on how to get up in front of an audience and make a lasting impression.
Curated by TED · 5 talks
https://www.ted.com/playlists/how_to_make_a_great_presentation

Alan Smith: Why you should love statistics

Think you're good at guessing stats? Guess again. Whether we consider ourselves math people or not, our ability to understand and work with numbers is terribly limited, says data visualization expert Alan Smith. In this delightful talk, Smith explores the mismatch between what we know and what we think we know.
https://www.ted.com/talks/alan_smith_why_you_should_love_statistics

Anna Rosling Rönnlund: See how the rest of the world lives, organized by income

What does it look like when someone in Sweden brushes their teeth or when someone in Rwanda makes their bed? Anna Rosling Rönnlund wants all of us to find out, so she sent photographers to 264 homes in 50 countries (and counting!) to document the stoves, bed, toilets, toys and more in households from every income bracket around the world. See ho...
https://www.ted.com/talks/anna_rosling_ronnlund_see_how_the_rest_of_the_world_lives_organized_by_income

Nathalie Miebach | TED Speaker

Nathalie Miebach is a Boston-based artist who translates weather data into complex sculptures and musical scores.
Artist
https://www.ted.com/speakers/nathalie_miebach

Anders Ynnerman: Visualizing the medical data explosion

Medical scans can produce thousands of images for a single patient in seconds, but how do doctors know what's useful? Scientific visualization expert Anders Ynnerman shows us sophisticated new tools -- like virtual autopsies -- for analyzing our data, and hints at the sci-fi-sounding medical technologies coming up next. This talk contains some g...
https://www.ted.com/talks/anders_ynnerman_visualizing_the_medical_data_explosion

Alexander Tsiaras | TED Speaker

Using art and technology, Alexander Tsiaras visualizes the unseen human body.
Medical image maker
https://www.ted.com/speakers/alexander_tsiaras

TEDxOmahaSalon: Statistics and Data Visualization - an independently organized event

About this event: This TEDxOmahaSalon will focus on the topic of the Statistics and Data Visualization.
Event details: Omaha, Nebraska, United States · September 8, 2014
https://www.ted.com/tedx/events/13062

César Hidalgo | TED Speaker

César Hidalgo studies how teams, cities and nations learn.
Physicist
https://www.ted.com/speakers/cesar_hidalgo

Tommy McCall | TED Speaker

Tommy McCall specializes in presenting complex and rich data sets.
Information designer
https://www.ted.com/speakers/tommy_mccall

Nathalie Miebach: Art made of storms

Artist Nathalie Miebach takes weather data from massive storms and turns it into complex sculptures that embody the forces of nature and time. These sculptures then become musical scores for a string quartet to play.
https://www.ted.com/talks/nathalie_miebach_art_made_of_storms

Alison Killing | TED Speaker

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Alison Killing uses satellite imagery and architectural techniques to investigate urgent social issues.
Journalist, architect
https://www.ted.com/speakers/alison_killing

Manuel Lima: A visual history of human knowledge

How does knowledge grow? Sometimes it begins with one insight and grows into many branches; other times it grows as a complex and interconnected network. Infographics expert Manuel Lima explores the thousand-year history of mapping data -- from languages to dynasties -- using trees and networks of information. It's a fascinating history of visua...
https://www.ted.com/talks/manuel_lima_a_visual_history_of_human_knowledge

Xiaowei R. Wang | TED Speaker

Xiaowei R. Wang is the lead steward of Logic School. They work on community-based and public art projects, data visualization, ecology and education.
Artist, writer, organizer, coder
https://www.ted.com/speakers/xiaowei_r_wang

Jinha Lee | TED Speaker

Jinha Lee wants to weave digital computing into the flow of our physical reality.
Designer, inventor, entrepreneur
https://www.ted.com/speakers/jinha_lee

TEDxMadridSalon: A computational heart - an independently organized event

About this event: we have shown a TEDMED Talk about data visualization and implications for the future of Medicine. This will be followed by a debate with the audience. The speaker of the TEDMED Talk, Mariano Vazquez, was in the room taking questions,
Event details: Madrid, Madrid, Comunidad de, Spain · October 30, 2013
https://www.ted.com/tedx/events/9771

Anders Ynnerman | TED Speaker

Anders Ynnerman studies the fundamental aspects of computer graphics and visualization, in particular large scale and complex data sets with a focus on volume rendering and multi-modal interaction.
Scientific visualization expert
https://www.ted.com/speakers/anders_ynnerman

Rajiv Maheswaran | TED Speaker

Using advanced data analysis tools, Rajiv Maheswaran and Second Spectrum help make basketball teams smarter.
Researcher
https://www.ted.com/speakers/rajiv_maheswaran

Giorgia Lupi: How we can find ourselves in data

Giorgia Lupi uses data to tell human stories, adding nuance to numbers. In this charming talk, she shares how we can bring personality to data, visualizing even the mundane details of our daily lives and transforming the abstract and uncountable into something that can be seen, felt and directly reconnected to our lives.
https://www.ted.com/talks/giorgia_lupi_how_we_can_find_ourselves_in_data

Giorgia Lupi | TED Speaker

Giorgia Lupi sees beauty in data. She challenges the impersonality that data communicate, designing engaging visual narratives that re-connect numbers to what they stand for: stories, people, ideas.
Information designer
https://www.ted.com/speakers/giorgia_lupi

Hans Rosling | TED Speaker

In Hans Rosling’s hands, data sings. Global trends in health and economics come to vivid life. And the big picture of global development -- with some surprisingly good news -- snaps into sharp focus.
Global health expert; data visionary
https://www.ted.com/speakers/hans_rosling

Alexander Tsiaras: Conception to birth -- visualized

Image-maker Alexander Tsiaras shares a powerful medical visualization, showing human development from conception to birth and beyond. (Some graphic images.)
https://www.ted.com/talks/alexander_tsiaras_conception_to_birth_visualized

TEDxInhaU - an independently organized event

About this event: Our topic is ' Live in _____ '. To express the inclusion of various ideas, we put that blank on the topic. This may sound broadly, but what we want to talk about in this topic is ‘Live in a different way‘. Let's focus on ‘different’ first. What does it mean to live differently? You may live in a different name, choose something different, choos...
Event details: Incheon, Incheon Gwang'yeogsi, South Korea · November 9, 2017
https://www.ted.com/tedx/events/25151

TEDxYouth@HAPS: HAPPENING - an independently organized event

About this event: Our first TEDx Event is about what HAPPENED to you. It starts with your specific incident or experience so called "HAPPENING". So the discussion starts with a personal experience but it ends with a full message brought by the speaker. We have a Korean traditional Bow maker who is only 16, World class expert in data visualization, and a passionat...
Event details: Seoul, Seoul Teugbyeolsi, South Korea · October 18, 2013
https://www.ted.com/tedx/events/10156

8 great data visualizations from TED Talks

We live in a sea of data -- and visualizations can help us understand the movement of individual waves. Great data visualizations can gather up enormous volumes of information, revealing the (sometimes sublimely beautiful) patterns underneath. Next week at TED2015, Manuel Lima (founder of Visual Complexity) will explore how one particular...
Posted March 11, 2015
https://blog.ted.com/2015/03/11/8-great-data-visualizations-from-ted-talks

TEDxTheHague: Data Visualization - an independently organized event

About this event: At TEDxTheHague, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group.
Event details: The Hague, Netherlands · February 11, 2011
https://www.ted.com/tedx/events/2101

Mona Chalabi: 3 ways to spot a bad statistic

Sometimes it's hard to know what statistics are worthy of trust. But we shouldn't count out stats altogether ... instead, we should learn to look behind them. In this delightful, hilarious talk, data journalist Mona Chalabi shares handy tips to help question, interpret and truly understand what the numbers are saying.
https://www.ted.com/talks/mona_chalabi_3_ways_to_spot_a_bad_statistic
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